Here’s my slightly serious, slightly tongue-in-cheek listing of things that are truly frightening and worth worrying about.  Feel free to add your own.

20 Things that Should Make Your Skin Crawl:

1. The government promising to take care of you.

2. The government promising to fix the economy.

3. The government.

4. Politicians.

5. Anyone who says, “Trust Me”

6. People who don’t pitch in to help improve things in their own community. (We’re not going to solve our problems by watching more television!)

7. The management of the institution where you are sending your child to get educated.

8. Managers who beget managers who beget boneheaded policies in the name of the customer.

9. Office-bound bureaucrats who talk about “customers,” but haven’t ever met or visited or better yet, worked in a customer’s environment.

10. The thought of former SAP and current HP Chief Leo Apotheker running your business.

11. Marketers promoting new branding initiatives that don’t have their basis in strategy.

12. Marketers who don’t understand social media.

13. Marketers claiming social media is THE solution.

14. Commercials for prescription drugs. (Have you listened to the side effects?)

15. Anyone who claims they can help you get rich.

16. Lazy people.

17. The digitization of all humankind’s knowledge and subsequent collapse of the technical infrastructure due to cyber-warfare, leading to a thousand years of dark ages. (Bet you weren’t worried about this one until now!)

18. The thought of former SAP and current HP Chief Leo Apotheker running anything. (Hey, this guy scares me more than any leader since Chainsaw Al.)

19. Warren Buffet in a bathtub. OK, I know it sounds weird…but I’m still flossing my brain on this one.  And he was the one who shared with the whole world that he was taking a bath when he decided to invest $5 billion in BofA. Perhaps it’s time to invest in tub companies!

20. The icon that Burger King will come up with to replace the creepiest corporate symbol ever, The King. Imagine topping the world’s only corporate icon likely to star in a series of horror films!